Issue 28: Fall '11
Poetry
"A Prayer Toward Sleep" and two more poems
by Aneesa Davenport • 11.21.2011Read "A Prayer Toward Sleep," "Application for Remembrance," and "Lover's Complaint" more »
Short Short
Spoon
by Emily Sandberg • 11.14.2011Tim and I were in bed together when he saw the spoon. I’d accidentally left the closet open, I noticed, at the same moment he said, “What’s that?” and I knew exactly what he was referring to more »
Nonfiction
Excerpts from "Shell-Shaped Pieces of Bone"
by Traci O Connor • 11.07.2011She says, “Don’t touch that bird or else the mother will never come back,” but I am already holding the baby bird cupped in my hands like my own beating heart. The tiny feet scritching my palms. I carry it home as carefully as a bomb and then... more »
Features
On Poetic Objects and Poetic Economies
by Anna Lena Phillips • 10.31.2011A call for radical formatting: Put a well-loved poem on some nice cardstock and give it—or trade it, or sell it—to a friend. Fringe Editor Anna Lena Phillips, on why we need broadsides and other visual embodiments for poetry now more than ever. more »
Fiction
Ringlet
by Russell Hehn • 10.24.2011There wasn’t much in the hut besides themselves and Amelia Earhart, and they couldn’t bear to look at one another in the eye. more »
(de)Classified
I've Decided to See the Physician and Other Poems
by Nicelle Davis, Cheryl Gross • 10.16.2011Fiction
Begin Chest Compressions
by Roxane Gay • 10.10.2011She said, “A tall skinny man drove a knife into his body more than once.” She looked up at bright lights. They were not stars. They were not watching over. more »
Nonfiction
Lone Star Love
by Andy Ross • 10.03.2011Late one Saturday afternoon last October, I found myself standing in a Gonzales, Texas, rodeo arena talking politics with a man named Cary, the membership director of a group called the Texas Nationalist Movement. Cary’s focus was on secession –... more »
Features
Adam Deutsch: Publishing poetry, one collaboration at a time
by Rachel Dacus, Adam Deutsch • 09.26.2011The Publisher/Editor of Cooper Dillon Books talks about poetical collaborations, the underrated virtue of humility, and the need for community. more »
(de)Classified
More Adventure Comics
by Aaron Block • 09.19.2011Panel 1: Captain Lightning holds Professor Spiralmind by the front of his lab coat, dangling the villain’s body over the ledge of his observatory hideout, as lightning flashes in the background. Rain has matted Captain Lightning’s black hair... more »
Poetry
Three poems from “An Invitation to Rache”
by Nathaniel Perry • 09.12.2011Read "In the Daylight of a Second Day," "In That Room Alone Where I Have Been Alone," and "At the Corner of the Hogwire Fence" more »
